Blood Rites is a shocking expose of how ritual human sacrifice is practised today and terrifyingly close to home Lima, Peru, 2004. A decapitated baby boy is found on a hilltop. Investigators believe the killing was a ritual sacrifice meant to appease a pre-Columbian earth god, because the body was found on the hilltop surrounded by flowers, liquor bottle, and containers of blood.

New Jersey, 2002. A raid on a basement temple of the "Palo Mayombe" voodoo sect uncovers human body parts and the remains of several animals that may have been sacrificed by worshippers.

London, 2001. The headless and dismembered body of a five-year-old boy is found in the Thames. Two years later 21 people from West Africa are arrested on suspicion of being involved in the "Ju Ju" ritual sacrifice of the boy.

In Blood Rites, Jimmy Lee Shreeve reveals that ritual sacrifice is not an archaic practice. It still goes on today. And is uncomfortably close to home - both in the US and UK. One voodoo priest in London, to cite one example, admitted recently that gangsters, murderers, and rapists have asked him to perform ritual murder on their behalf, but he has insisted he has never done so.

In other parts of the world, such as South America and Mexico, ritual killing is almost commonplace. Drug traffickers and gangsters hire shamen to perform gruesome ritual killings to stack the odds in their favour against getting caught by the law.

Blood Rites investigates the current spate of human sacrifices, puts the practice in cultural perspective, and talks to police (such as Florida's "occult cop"), psychologists, shamanistic practitioners and victims' families on the subject.

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Jimmy Lee Shreeve is a bestselling cult author and journalist. His books include "How To Be Famous" (Orion), the cult classic "Doktor Snake’s Voodoo Spellbook" (St Martin’s Press), "Cannibals" (John Blake), "Blood Rites" (Random House), and "Human Sacrifice" (Barricade).Jimmy’s byline and work has appeared in over 1000 newspapers, magazines and online media all over the world, including The Independent, Financial Times, Sunday Express, The Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express, Mail On Sunday, Best Magazine, Chat, How To Spend It, Maxim, Front, and The Sun.He has made ...More about Jimmy Lee Shreeve

Book Reviews

"This telling of the Adam case is a reminder how religions tap into the most basic level of the human psyche and can turn the most brutal actions into an acceptable religious act."Sunday Express

"Written in a free-flowing, almost matter-of-fact style, Jimmy Lee Shreeve takes the reader on a journey that is, to say the least, terrifying and opens up the doors on a world that most believe to be fake or bathed in mysticism beyond comprehension."ChrisHigh.com

"Jimmy is a fan of the gonzo school of journalism which focuses on personal experience and has a free-form format. As such, he conducts a ritual on Hampstead Heath with his shaman friend Crazywolf to ostensibly free Adam's soul. He also slips into an altered state in a London pub to glean advice on ritual murder from the long-dead authors William Burroughs and Alan Ginsberg and has a brief chat with Satan at a later date."Tangled Webb

"Shreeve reaches a new conclusion on the Adam case; recounts how he nearly got himself arrested minutes before meeting the head of homicide at Scotland Yard; and investigates human sacrifice across time and continents, stopping off at some of the more extraordinary cases to examine them in depth."Bizarre Magazine

"Not for the faint-hearted! Quite gruesome, doesn't pull any punches, and contains some pretty nasty photographic evidence. Don't leave it lying around at home...."Gateway Monthly